“Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,”
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas. The conspiracy that has been building since Matthew 12:14 (when the Pharisees first conspired to destroy Jesus) reaches its formal organization: the chief priests and elders gather in the high priest's palace to plan the arrest and execution. The location — the high priest's palace — communicates the institutional character of the conspiracy.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:3
Then the Evangelist lays before us the hidden springs and machinery by which the Lord’s Passion was brought to pass.
This, 'then,' is to be referred to the preceding words, and means before the Feast of the Passover.
Not true Priests and elders, but Priests and elders of what seemed the people of God, but was indeed the people of Gomorrah; these, not knowing God’s High Priest, laid a plot against Him, not recognizing 'the firstborn of the whole creation, [Col 1:15] yea, even against Him that was elder than them all, did they take counsel.
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